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FAST TIWK AT HAWTHORNE. The track at Hawthorne yesterday was lightning fast and the races were ran in exceptionally fast time. Aba Fnrsts three-quarters with 118 pounds up in 1 :13s was the bast speed exhibition of the afternoon, but Senator Blands win with 129 pounds up, after staying at the post over half an hour, is a performance of great excellence. Clara Wooley furnished a surprise in the opening race by winning handsomely from Erla ■dOr, with the tempting odds of 30 to 1 posted against her chances. Sonator Bland was a strongly-backed favorite for the second race and coming with a sustained rush through tha stretch won in a atroDgly-ridden finish by a comfortable margin lapped out by Brigade. Monongab captured the third event in a hot finish with Native Son. Abs Furst is apparently as good as be ever was at any former period in his career. In the .fourth race, with the respectable impost of 118 pounds up, he ran away from a fast held, doing six furlongs in 1 :13r, a track record. Mm at beat a lot of common ones for the fifth race, and Chisel managed to get to the wire in advance of the badly ridden The Winner in the closing race of the day. After tbe second race Beauchauip complained to the judges that Tabor, who rode Little Jack Horner, had hit him with his whip Capt. Bees called Tabor up, fined bim 00 and suspended him for one week. This boy is most unfortunate. Col. Clark ruled him off la-t summer thinking he was Tuberville. Shortly after being suspended Tabor received a telegram from W. W. Darden asking him to ride a horse in a stake this coming Saturday. B. J. "Kid" Weller was at the track. He says that the deal given him by W. £. Applegate was a very unfair one. His account is that Weller and Applegate together bought Prince McClurg, Banish and Elizabeth B. as yearlingB. The price i a id for the trio was 400. Weller says bis share of the expenses for keeping the horses before they earned a penny was 00. He also stated that the sale at New Orleans to dissolve partnership between himself and Applegate was made without his knowledge. Prince McClurg, the only one of the trio worth feeding, brought 00 and was bought in by J. H. McAvoy. The latter has trained for Applegate for several years and the horse now runs in the name of McAvoy and Co.
